PowerPoint for Windows (Desktop Application)

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I would like to be able to create PowerPoint presentations that students can watch video segments and then answer questions with Microsoft Forms and not be able to go on until they get the questions correct like in EdPuzzle. Can this feature be created? It would be nice to have these features in PowerPoint instead of using multiple websites like EdPuzzle and Nearpod.

I would like to see more interaction with a single PowerPoint presentation like how Nearpod works, where teachers can project their presentation on the screen and students simply go to the website and log into the PowerPoint presentation and they have to follow along. They can also participate in Forms surveys and quizzes straight from the website instead of sending out individual PowerPoints to the students via Teams or something for them to participate in the Forms slides of the PowerPoint. There are some other features of Nearpod that would be great for PowerPoint to incorporate.

Loving the design ideas to make a basic slide look snazzy, but the same styles keep getting suggested with little variety.
Would be good to have a greater variety of design idea layouts, colour schemes, templates, animations.

Often, when building slide animations, I use foreground shapes to hide parts of the slide that are revealed by animation (usually, a white box is ideal). However, as slide edits continue, those foreground shapes have to be moved off-slide, those edits made, then the foreground shapes have to be moved back into the correct position. This is an opportunity for human error, and it takes extra time that is not value added.

The undo stack is not a workable solution, because any other slide edits will be undone before the shape is moved back to the original position. It would be nice is if shapes kept a location history (probably limited to the current slide, more on that below) so that a user could move a shape out of the way, make other edits, then right-click a shape and send it back to its previous location (I guess that makes it a shape-specific undo stack, possibly limited to just location)

When I think about it as part of the overall undo stack, it sounds more complicated- I could see users getting confused when they intermix use of the whole PowerPoint undo stack, vs a shape undo stack... but my thinking is that using the shape undo (location) stack would just add to the PowerPoint undo stack, not edit the existing stack.

I'd see this as shape specific, and carried over (including to other slides) when a shape is copied to another slide, or the whole slide is copied/duplicated. However, if a shape was copied/moved to another slide, I wouldn't see its personal undo (location) stack moving it back to another slide.

There may be other solutions, other than a shape-specific undo stack, and other than a right-click menu option. Maybe this eventually becomes something on the shapes ribbon, where a user could 'lock' one shape (or group), then use that ribbon option to return it to the locked position after it is moved?

Thanks for reading!

Often, when building slide animations, I use foreground shapes to hide parts of the slide that are revealed by animation (usually, a white box is ideal). However, as slide edits continue, those foreground shapes have to be moved off-slide, those edits made, then the foreground shapes have to be moved back into the correct position. This is an opportunity for human error, and it takes extra time that is not value added.

The undo stack is not a workable solution, because any other slide edits will be undone before the shape is moved back to the original position. It would…

In PowerPoint themes, make custom placeholders acceptable on Title Slide layout.
Now, the Title Slide Layout is ignored and an extra Title Slide layout is added to the presentation, with the default PowerPoint title and subtitle placeholders and no custom placeholders.
On other slide layouts, custom placeholders are accepted; it is only the Title Slide layout where this is not possible.

If PowerPoint can add 3D models of persons (male, female, child, adult, etc.) and make the posture and facial expression of the models changeable and controllable, for example, a user can change the posture of a hand or change smiling to crying, then PowerPoint will become a very powerful tool for users to draw people's without need of drawing skills. The posture-change function can be designed in such way that no matter how crazy a user tries to change a posture, the software always results in a reasonable posture. For example, if a user pull the hand above the head for 3 feet, the result shows the hand is just above the head.

If PowerPoint can add 3D models of persons (male, female, child, adult, etc.) and make the posture and facial expression of the models changeable and controllable, for example, a user can change the posture of a hand or change smiling to crying, then PowerPoint will become a very powerful tool for users to draw people's without need of drawing skills. The posture-change function can be designed in such way that no matter how crazy a user tries to change a posture, the software always results in a reasonable posture. For example, if a user pull the hand above the head…

Could the button to open the Selection pane be put on the View tab of the ribbon? I can never remember the name of this pane, so I hunt about for it expecting to find it on the View tab of the ribbon, but it is not there. Then I resort to using the "Tell me what you want to do" button just above the ribbon and I type in various words that might work, such as "View Objects" or "Display items" and so forth. It generally takes me a long time to find it. The View tab seems to me the most intuitive place to put it, since that is where you go to open most additional panes.

Could the button to open the Selection pane be put on the View tab of the ribbon? I can never remember the name of this pane, so I hunt about for it expecting to find it on the View tab of the ribbon, but it is not there. Then I resort to using the "Tell me what you want to do" button just above the ribbon and I type in various words that might work, such as "View Objects" or "Display items" and so forth. It generally takes me a long time to find it. The View tab seems to…

There is current limitation on slide size. This is an issue especially when we use power point for poster design. I know that this is not the main usage of power point but it is used a lot for that as people can just copy and paste from their already created presentation into their poster slide file. As such the arbitrary slide size limitation should be removed.

We utilize 2 physical monitors and a 3rd as a screen where we project our power point presentations. If the PPT is showing, and we operate other programs on one of our 2 monitors, the PPT pauses, and will not advance until I make the PPT screen active again. This prevents us from preparing other programs for our worship services. It would be nice to multi-task while PPT show is running. Thanks!

Our short clip heart videos will not loop continously in PowerPoint 2016. The videos work perfectly in PowerPoint 2010, but we can't continue to support 2010. Our doctors need to be able to talk about the heart while showing these clips for education, for patient comfort, and for discussing any issues with other doctors, nurses, or patients.

There is a fix for Office 2019, but we need this fix created for Office 2016 as well! It takes time to upgrade thousands of employees, and we have invested heavily in our own servers and have employed many people to maintain them. Office 365 is way too expensive for 15,000 people. Please help us with this issue. I am a very big advocate of MS Office, and my job is to help people do more in less time, not to waste countless hours trying to find fixes for things that should work seamlessly. Please give us the same fixes that the latest versions receive.

Our short clip heart videos will not loop continously in PowerPoint 2016. The videos work perfectly in PowerPoint 2010, but we can't continue to support 2010. Our doctors need to be able to talk about the heart while showing these clips for education, for patient comfort, and for discussing any issues with other doctors, nurses, or patients.

There is a fix for Office 2019, but we need this fix created for Office 2016 as well! It takes time to upgrade thousands of employees, and we have invested heavily in our own servers and have employed many people to maintain them.…